glab(1)

💖 glab variable export 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the glab(1) manual page for glab variable export — like, the actual official Unix manual page, just with ✨personality✨. this is the one that scoops up all your CI/CD variables and lets you carry them somewhere else. main character energy fr fr.

glab variable export [flags]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: by default this command exports the variables of your current project. that's it, that's the default. no cap.

want a whole group instead? slay, just use --group to export variables for a group. 💅

and to control what format you get back, hit up --output. the options are:

• json — the default, iconic, structured
• env — KEY=VALUE pairs, for when you just want the lines
• export — shell export statements, plug it straight into your shell and go 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -g, --group="" — pick a group or subgroup to export from. heads up: this gets ignored if a repository argument is set. like, the repo wins, no debate 🙈
• --jq="" — filter that JSON output with a jq expression. chef's kiss for slicing and dicing
• -F, --output="json" — format the output as: json, export, env. defaults to json
• -p, --page=1 — page number. defaults to 1
• -P, --per-page=100 — how many items to list per page. defaults to 100
• -R, --repo="" — select another repository entirely. you can pass either OWNER/REPO or GROUP/NAMESPACE/REPO, and the full URL or Git URL is also accepted 🫶
• -s, --scope="" — the environment_scope of the variables. values: '' (the default) or specific environments

🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

• -h, --help[=false] — show help for this command. the classic. the blueprint. default is false

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🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

here's the whole mood board of usage, straight up:

glab variable export
glab variable export --per-page 1000 --page 1
glab variable export --group gitlab-org
glab variable export --group gitlab-org --per-page 1000 --page 1
glab variable export --output json
glab variable export --output env
glab variable export --output export

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• glab-variable(1) — the parent command, go say hi 💖

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ngl bestie, that's the whole page. every flag, every default, every example — nothing dropped, nothing invented. periodt. 🧚

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⭐ cute sign-off: this page is Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Nov 2026, and it's the glab(1) manual — mwah, go export some variables 💜